WorkMrs. Ross

Hesitation: or, To Marry, or Not to Marry?

Mrs. Ross (fl. 1810s)

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Documented 1819

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  • 1819Hesitation: or, To Marry, or Not to Marry?Attested

    “I have been reading a novel of the name of Hesitation. Do not let the name novel make you think it is either trifling or silly.”

    Letters of Margaret Fuller ed. Hudspeth · Cambridge. 25th Dec 1819

    Explicit first-person statement 'I have been reading a novel of the name of Hesitation'.

When Fuller engaged with this work

I. Childhood1record
II. Adolescence
III. Self-Directed
IV. Transcendentalist
V. New York
VI. Europe
✦. Memoirs (1852)
1810
1820
1832
1836
1844
1846
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1819—

Letter to Timothy Fuller

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“I have been reading a novel of the name of Hesitation. Do not let the name novel make you think it is either trifling or silly.”

Fuller, Margaret. The Letters of Margaret Fuller. Edited by Robert N. Hudspeth. Vol. I. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983.

The novel was published in London in 1819 with an American edition in New York the same year; the author is identified only as Mrs. Ross in available sources.